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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: There is a relatively simple view that if children have to wait for two and half or three years in Kerry and Cork for speech and language therapy, we must hire ten therapists now and when they are hired, we must be nice to them so that they do not leave. If they need to go on maternity leave, their absence should be covered. For the love of Jesus, if we know that children are waiting for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Ms Kirkpatrick represents the therapists. I have asked the HSE and it has given me very convoluted answers, amounting to no more than the fact that life is terribly complicated. Sometimes, however, it is not terribly complicated in that we just need to hire people and be nice to them. I am asking Ms Kirkpatrick, as the representative of therapists, why it is proving so hard to hire...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: If I may, I will go back over this again. There is an urgent need to hire speech and language therapists everywhere, but particularly in certain parts of the country like Cork and Kerry. Is it that the HSE is not trying to hire therapists or that it is not willing to pay them enough? Is it that the HSE in certain areas has a bad reputation as an employer and word has got out among...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is frustrating because, on the face of it, it is such an easy problem to solve. We have 1,700 children who need help so we need to hire the people who can help them. We seem to be able to manage it in other parts of the country. I thank the witnesses for their responses. I have one last question on latent private sector capacity. Fianna Fáil wants a public healthcare system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Ms Kenny.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government will not get close to 80%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of a new extension at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42187/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 361. To ask the Minister for Health when an additional orthodontist will commence work at St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, in order to ease waiting times for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41832/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each public and voluntary hospital who have been removed from outpatient lists to date in 2018 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant. [41903/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a home support hours package in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [41906/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours provided in each LHO area in each month from January to September 2018; and the way in which this compares against target for each month. [41907/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the status of primary care centre projects (details supplied) announced on 22 April 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41910/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the Ireland East hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41914/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the RCSI hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41915/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the Dublin Midlands hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41916/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the Saolta University Health Care Group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41917/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the South/South West hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41918/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the UL hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 430. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the significant multi-annual investment in general practice which he announced in budget 2019; the specific funding to be provided in 2018 to general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42079/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the additional funding for winter pressures in 2018-19 and new beds in 2019-20 which he announced in budget 2019; the specific funding to be provided for winter pressures; the additional services that will be provided with this funding; the number of new beds that will be provided in 2019-20; and if he will make a statement on the matter....